The Republic of Poland Ambassador to Finland is the Poland's foremost

diplomatic representative Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...

in the

Republic of Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Both ...

, and head of the Poland's

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

there.

History

Diplomatic relations between Poland and Finland were established on February 7, 1920. Embassy of Poland is located in Helsinki in Kulosaari suburb. In addition there are Honorary Cosulates of Poland in

Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...

, Jyväskylä,

Kuopio Kuopio (, ) is a Finnish city and municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia. It has a population of , which makes it the most populous municipality in Finland. Along with Joensuu, Kuopio is one of the major urban, economic, and cult ...

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

and

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

List of ambassadors of Poland to Finland

Second Polish Republic

* 1918-1920: Mikołaj Himmelstjerna (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1920-1922: Michał Sokolnicki (''envoy'') * 1922-1927:

Tytus Filipowicz Tytus Filipowicz (1873–1953) was a Polish politician and diplomat. Life Filipowicz was born on 21 November 1873 in Warsaw. He attended school in Dąbrowa Górnicza. He worked as a coal miner and became a socialist political activist; from 1 ...

(''envoy'') * 1927-1928: Tomasz Sariusz-Bielski (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1928-1935: Franciszek Charwat (''envoy'') * 1936-1941: Henryk Sokolnicki (''envoy'') * 1941-1942: Józef Weyers (''chargé d’affaires'') ''January 18, 1942 – closure of the embassy due to breaking diplomatic relations''

People's Polish Republic

* 1946-1947: Stefan Szumowski (''envoy'') * 1947-1949: Jan Wasilewski (''envoy'') * 1949-1950: Włodzimierz Umiastowski (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1950: Feliks Petruczyński (''envoy'') * 1950-1954: Kazimierz Krawczyński (''chargé d’affaires'') * 1954-1957: Jan Lato * 1957-1965: Edward Pietkiewicz * 1965-1972: Aleksander Juszkiewicz * 1972-1978: Adam Willmann * 1978-1982: Włodzimierz Wiśniewski * 1982-1983: Józef Fajkowski * 1983-1984: Jan Załęski * 1985-1990: Henryk Burczyk * 1992-1995: Andrzej Potworowski * 1996-2000: Józef Wiejacz * 2000-2005: Stanisław Stebelski * 2005-2007: Andrzej Szynka * 2007: Stanisław Cios (''chargé d’affaires'') * 2007-2011: Joanna Hofman * 2011-2015: Janusz Niesyto * 2015-2017: Przemysław Grudziński * 2017: Tomasz Kozłowski (''chargé d’affaires'') * 2017-2019: Jarosław Suchoples * 2019: Marcin Tatarzyński (''chargé d’affaires'') * 2019-2023: Piotr Rychlik

References

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Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...